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Measuring Natural Risks in the Philippines : Socioeconomic Resilience and Wellbeing Losses
Walsh, Brian James - 2019
Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure of disaster severity. Using a new,...
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Youth Well-Being in Brazil : An Index for Cross-Regional Comparisons
Dell'Aglio, Debora - 2016
This study constructs three indices to measure how well Brazil's young people are surviving their transition to adulthood. Youth development is difficult to quantify because of the multi-dimensionality of youth behavior. Most monitoring use individual indicators in specific sectors, making it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747785
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History of Events and Life-Satisfaction in Transition Countries
Dabalen, Andrew - 2017
satisfaction is correlated with lesser experience of unpleasant events such as labor market shock or economic distress, mostly in … satisfaction, whereas lower relative position to a reference group leaves one with lower life satisfaction. The paper also finds … substantial regional variation in life satisfaction between European, Balkan, and lower and middle-income Commonwealth of …
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Subjective Well-Being Across the Lifespan in Europe and Central Asia
Bauer, Jan - 2017
This paper uses data from the Integrated Values Survey, the Life in Transition Survey, and the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to analyze the relation between age and subjective well-being in the Europe and Central Asia region. Although the results generally confirm the findings of...
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Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings
Witte, Caroline T. - 2019
reflects changes in perceived satisfaction with living standards and the ability to have a purposeful and meaningful life …
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Economic Shocks and Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Hariri, Jacob Gerner - 2017
This article examines how economic shocks affect individual well-being in developing countries. Using the case of a sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock affects individuals' evaluations of well-being. This...
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Can Subjective Well-Being Predict Unemployment Length?
Mavridis, Dimitris - 2017
This paper uses 16 waves of panel data from the British Household Panel Survey to evaluate the role of subjective well-being in determining labor market transitions. It confirms a previous finding in the literature: individuals report a fall in their happiness when they lose a job, but they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976555
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The Public/Private Wage Differential in the Land of Gross National Happiness
Schmillen, Achim D. - 2017
In Bhutan, the public sector is usually seen as the most desirable employer. This study asks if this can be attributed to public sector employees receiving higher wages than comparable private sector workers. To answer the question, the study combines an Oaxaca-type decomposition of wage...
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Beyond Income Poverty : Nonmonetary Dimensions of Poverty in Uganda
Etang Ndip, Alvin - 2017
The proportion of Ugandan households living in poverty reduced by more than half between 1993 and 2013. Using household survey data, this paper analyzes nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda for levels and trends, to explore whether the observed reduction in monetary-based poverty are...
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Association of World Bank Policy Lending with Social Development Policies and Institutions
Bogetic, Zeljko - 2017
Do World Bank policy loans that are focused on social policy reform help improve social policies and institutions in borrower countries? To help answer this question, this paper provides new empirical evidence of the association between World Bank policy lending and measures of the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942456